Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Qualitative Interviews of Racial Fluctuations: The “How” of Latina/o-White Hybrid Identity Communication Theory Volume 21, Issue 2 (May 2011) pages 197–216 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2011.01382.x Shane T. Moreman, Associate Professor of Communications California State University, Fresno Using qualitiative interviewing, this article exposes the performative moments of the Latina/o-White hybrid social actor (i.e., individuals born of one White…

  • Problems with Plaçage: Historical Imagination and Femmes de couleurs libres in Colonial and Antebellum New Orleans Bridges: A Journal of Student Research Coastal Carolina University Issue 3 (Winter 2009) Philip Whalen, Associate Professor of History Coastal Carolina University This essay compares two approaches to understanding the condition of free women of color who struggled to…

  • Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women is a stunning and long awaited collection of some of the most poignant writing by more than forty women of mixed racial heritage.

  • Ten Questions, with Adebe DeRango-Adem Open Book Toronto 2011-03-25 Adebe DeRango-Adem talks to Open Book about the anthology she co-edited with Andrea Thompson, Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out (Inanna Publications). The goal for this exciting anthology was not to nail down what identity means, but rather to open discussion and interrogate the diverse experiences…

  • Being and Belonging: Space and Identity in Cape Town Anthropology and Humanism Volume 28, Issue 1 (June 2003) pages 61–84 DOI: 10.1525/ahu.2003.28.1.61 Shannon M. Jackson, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Missouri, Kansas City The post-apartheid transition has led to changes in the shape and meaning of urban space in South Africa. Cape Town is…

  • Elite (re-)constructions of coloured identities in a post-apartheid South Africa: Assimilations and bounded transgressions Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick 2006 328 pages AAT 3249339 Michele René Ruiters A Dissertation submitted to the Graduate School – New Brunswick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for…

  • Afro-Saxon psychosis or cultural schizophrenia in African-Caribbeans? The Psychiatrist Volume 24, Issue 3 (2000) pages 96-97 DOI: 10.1192/pb.24.3.96 Hari D. Maharajh, Psychiatric Hospital Director St Ann’s Hospital, Trinidad, West Indies “Everybody in Miguel Street said that Man-man was mad, and so they left him alone, but I am not sure now that he was mad…

  • Diversity Dialogues lecture opens forum on ethnic identity Spartan Daily News@SJSU San José State University 2011-03-06 Francisco Rendon So … what are you?” Although a common question facing persons of mixed ethnic heritage, it often characterizes society’s attempt to label them, and these persons‘ struggle to fit into one culture. This question, as well as…

  • Mixed Blood: An analytical look at methods of classifying race Psyhcology Today 1995-11-01 Jefferson M. Fish, Professor Emeritus of Psychology St. John’s University, New York, New York An analytical look at methods of classifying race. Race is an immutable biological given, right? So how come the author’s daughter can change her race just by getting…

  • The One Drop Rule: How Black Is “Black?” Psychology Today Blogs: In the Eye of the Beholder: The science of social perception 2011-04-07 Jason Plaks, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology University of Toronto The perception of race is subjective. Many biracial people publicly identify themselves with only one race (for example, either black or white,…